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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salieri refer to his servants?
(a) As The gossiping Ventrecelli.
(b) As The Keeper of the Purse and The Maker of the Cakes.
(c) As the Kappellmeister's Baker and The Keeper of the Salt.
(d) As The Keeper of the Razor and The Maker of the Cakes.

2. How could Constanze secure for husband the job of tutor to Princess Elizabeth?
(a) By sleeping with Count Rosenberg.
(b) By sleeping with Salieri.
(c) By sending Mozart's CV to Count Rosenberg, along with a bribe.
(d) By bribing Salieri.

3. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?
(a) His mother.
(b) No-one.
(c) Marie Antionette.
(d) The Emperor's mother.

4. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) Leopold Mozart.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) Rosenberg.
(d) Salieri.

5. Who plays the 'march of welcome' for Mozart?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) Salieri.
(c) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(d) Von Strack.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salieri describe Mozart at the end of this scene?

2. What kind of love does Mozart claim his opera contains?

3. What kind of work has the Emperor commissioned Mozart to write?

4. Why is a party being held at Baroness Waldstadten's?

5. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this scene show us of Mozart's talent?

2. What does Salieri do to cope with the psychic blow he has received through hearing Mozart's music?

3. Comment on the conflict in this library scene.

4. How does the play open?

5. What is Van Swieten's attitude to Salieri at this point in the play?

6. What strategy does Salieri use in his attempt to seduce Constanze?

7. For what reason might the scene in the Baroness's library be considered ironic?

8. What is the significance of the golden light that bathes the Emperor and his court?

9. Why do reports about Mozart unsettle Salieri?

10. What does Constanze's response to her husband's accusations tell us about her?

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